Photos: The data centre behind CERN's LHC

Aug 3, 2012

Inside Tier Zero.

  CERN primarily uses NAS storage over SAN, being that the latter has historically always been based on expensive, specialised infrastructure such as fibre channel rather than standard ethernet.</p><p>CERN also operates its own mass storage system called CASTOR, which currently stores some 500 million files, taking in two petabytes of raw data per month, or about 24 petabytes a year.  
 

CERN primarily uses NAS storage over SAN, being that the latter has historically always been based on expensive, specialised infrastructure such as fibre channel rather than standard ethernet.

CERN also operates its own mass storage system called CASTOR, which currently stores some 500 million files, taking in two petabytes of raw data per month, or about 24 petabytes a year.

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